The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 17, 1919, Page 6

& months, #2 r 08, In the of Wastin Ne tate, | or $9.00 | On the Issue of Americanism There Ca | | Be No Compromise | | il, out of city, BSc per month: T months, | —By Webster YT wourD PE Just My Luce To OF MELO UP OR GET My Pocwe T Picea? Or (He WAY To THE Gimme Ten LiGe Ty Bonps i” REGHS TER. “em. Ths ts of } i; WM P 4 ALL THE Morey 1 MAVE tn THE WORLO Aw tm TAKING =. Te CHANCES The price of Permanence is Progress. wee Coe de develop ann’? aaa jon. y. Bu a . There is no eee egg get ND We are creating no Roman Empire, m4 SAFE VERODIT The most deceptive stability | Anglo-Saxon supremacy, nor other fabric VAULTS wrTee jworld is that which seems stable. | ; A ; : ¥ | national vanity. We are creating a gov Teese Bones | The castles on the Rhine have crumbled, | ment for the human race. jare crumbling. The river flows on. It was | We are starting upon a program there before them. It will be there when Progress, not to be interrupted by lap they are gone. into the barbarism of war. brook said, We are not making provision for mighty and men fleets and armies. We are not aiming to: a protect our structure by the force of dee Me 3 struction, but to improve it by the forces | of construction. Future ages shall look back at this agree- ment at Versailles as the first gleam of the — new day, ‘The light, the breaking day that tips ‘The golien spired Apocalypne. | The league of nations is imperfect as the Of course it is. The seed is imperfect. | constitution of the United States was im- |The child is imperfect. The house, when | perfect, and as out of the one there grew © its foundations have been barely laid, is | the mighty democracy of the Western eon- imperfect, But these things have in them- | tinent, a continent held permanently in jselves what is better than perfection. They | peace by law and not by armies, so out of have the element of improvableness. the other shall grow a world whose enfran- And for the first time in the history of | chisement shall have like permanence. the world we have, in this covenant of na-| Such a thing has not been done before. — tions, a political structure which contains | All the more reason why we must do it the germ of never-ending life. now. For humanity is like a bicycle: when For it is an edifice of humanity. Fit stops it falls down. centuries lanity, and, pre- bly, tamed by more ies of subjugation, still the most vigorous, ippy, undowned aggre- tion on top of earth, lat do you suppose Ire- Ses. , Me ; ind was of the ancient days, when Pries ‘ ‘ B. me to redeem it from its heathen sins? ee and in. is the voice of all things that go | ‘ : i snakes were the smallest job . = oe oon eeaarecsepheam rag ep hs, pa oe eee | The nations a the weeid = the o—— it man, how the Irish have fought for his mem-) ,¢¢ of POST Lay, ‘sarees erie. [Manne ab venues ae jormed 0 compact pever since! : ; WG \ 1 Mus BE CeRTAIne jarisen from the ever strident Bourbons who, | An Irishman is that babe ly he bi heme vo ane BEFORE ) LEAVE My like the poor, are always with us, that this thirty years, then spend the rest of his life fighting may #0, ut t forever a ARE you SURE NO OME CAM PICK THAT Lock on MY Box PALL THE Money | Own 15 we ‘THERE ! Bonos Here union is imperfect. e’s to the Irish and their patron saint. e race that never forgets a favor nor an insult; that pays its obligation of friendship as eagerly debts of enmity. i ‘ou can take ten drops of Irish blood and strain ru the waters of ten generations; you can mix vith the waves of the South Seas, and then imbed he glaciers of the Arctic, and five hundred years y that ten drops ee = a a gp ——— will have redeemed and made human gulfs of = ~ on wind pe niger Baal! tig eon ses OOTECT To LiBeRTy Ireland in America fe Americans, children of all the races and ages, lowes ee ars | foros al caeety, pe more of our Irish, and are prouder of it, than of sio%2, wenn 7 weexs —— ay ‘ a a aa Vix oR — other racial strains combined. WE WILL.BE PAYIC t f : Bites M5 , ; “ But sure, I sometimes half suspect St. Patrick found To th s : 4 od bless | Oty Pens OF FOO % | it fret a! Irish, fair foes and fast ft fonda, God HOW Masry SHane 5 | He founded him a city then and named the place New | 0 You wamT ? Cork Unul the Yay English came and then they called it | York. Ess _ | HOPE You Bor T | But the Irish, they're not carin’, for they own the City | Hall | The gossoon at Castle Garden is one iaddie of the mob, But look at him next mornin’ in his governmental job! All dressed up in blue and brass be stands a-swingin’ his shillalah. While the-harp-thatoncein-Tara’s-halis plays “Y: j ou think of t faith it Doodle” gaily t you Ghiak of Tak but Mit i | ote chante grows ini diiiad tut, bal aul Cinch—Or Isn’t It? ‘ ‘ [tm e . < - | Such i \glieh subetitution took @ freedom of the C. spreads all over | | And it covers all America, tho’ here they call it clover. 2 i i i i LL f } \ [A lot of foreign peoples came in many a flock and | Any person of average intelligence who will put aside | G— aren 424 t ot for [such things as stir the emotions as to the fight that has (“777 — , And cd, iets change Americ fought and the victory that has been won and who will IZ 5 Bl ae i - bi agate teh ait the proposed constitution of the League of Nations 4 J 7 a9 : ne. 0 ly will be likely to arrive at this: | oe cn Cs “Business is business.” | ae For, with the object of maintaining peace, the penalty Bae fiolation is economic boycott, under said constitution. | ThE offending nation is not to be clubbed by an inter- . policeman. It is to have its international business m away. | While Ireland stays in Ireland, ahe may have an evil spell, | But Ireland in America is doin” pretty well! é ‘We're bere to tell you | O'Brien is an alderman and Fiaherty’s « cop, x 4n4 Hyian is a mayor and you'll find no place to stop. Preceedin’ from the janitor and hit the highest le | And there'll you'll find that Wilson mixes Irish y and the Morgans | bis Scotch. and give it our needs ix government and we have lots of (Copyright, 1900, by OT Werte Letters to Editor ch is the crux of all the argument and conference as HOW FAIR RENT BILL FAILED it constitution. Grant, that this is so, as plainly set) psitor othe star: Let me take this opportunity to i by that constitution itself, and the thought of the aver-!tnank your for your support of wenate but No. 210, | der naturally runs along some such line as this: lknown as the fair rental bill, which was killed by the | ‘The world has become accustomed to seeing organized | ‘¥!e# committee of the house what it goes after. Hence, it is reasonable to| | ‘The history of tly bill might be of interest to ¥ Fy 5 ; business would |"*der. for it was of vital interest to thouss eres nat incernotlonnity orgeniged bust ould /irmilies paying rxcensive rents ost powerful influence upon the business of any nation | ting the terms and purposes of that constitution. But | nearing was granted in the senate chamber, and among | iycott of the foreign business of a nation not only would |thome appearing in behalf of it, and telling the rent | =’ nation i trad i leonditions In Seattle, Tacoma and Hremerton, were | : ‘s rt-and import gna yg Goward G, Cosgrove, chairman of the govertument fair | Ama vag and direct effect upon the little shop, OFY | rental commission; Mise Ida Levi, also « member of | individual enterprises of that nation, lowering |the commission; President Haverkamp and A. G. Mer while the cost of living rose, since raw materials are | rian, of the anti-rent profiteering league, and Mrs. Bites, ‘ vital e foreign nations. japartment house owner. About 20 others appeared i he. It is to be expected that the common people of a nation | *'*® ‘ y own Broad Starshells A WORD FROM JOSH WISE Accept, sir, the Re- newed assurances of my highest considera- ation. 7 Four days after the bill was introduced, a public | cee GOOD-BYE, NOSEBLUSH! | Attention class! Uhhum! A little dry chatter on/ ® wet subject. Next July the country goes drier than/ the interior of an electric light. | Water, the stuff that fish work in, will take the | center of the stage for the second time since Noah, | the inventor of the cireus, took a suburban hungalow | within five min- ‘These latter told of raive after raise in rent, which - have the say, hereafter, as to whether there shall oF |,,.4 compelled them to move from place to place. They | a Stes float of a car all not be a war. The business boycott would hit them |jmpressed the senate. When the bill came up for 5 en AE om tely and directly. | Passage, no arguments were made against it, and the in r a ore works month the Conceding that the international trade boycott would | vote was 28 to %. | Some ner Uquid —_ fireworks trick, what is the outlook for the United States? i alia an “eal thie tasniah fan 8 Gente to : t thing that impresses us is the tremendous fact that} aitno every paper in Seattle ran articles regarding bowst fenne, be of all the civilized nations, are the only nation that can-|the hearing, no real estate men or owners appeared -os eye aft We are completely self-sup- | oppowe the bill, and after passage, the bill was “im- net: th bbe * mediately transmitted" to the house. This was last the dizzy dope in ; save as to coffee, rubber and some tin. Moreover, |ryursday noon. ‘The bill then fell into the hands of | powdered form [Mecessary are our foods and raw material to the foreign |tne judiciary committee of the house, of which Repre- | 3 Some ry eh? i any nation par-| sentative E. H. Guile is chairman. io had promised ‘The ‘almanac a <a gions wid is, we a |to “father” the bill. The bill waa sent to a sub-com wet in cl in the league the only nation that need not fear the | mittee. of which Representative Roth was chairman | ters for the com- * and Representatives Smith and Ledgerwood the body. ing moons, with a ie of the league. loth had spoken against the bill time after time | little dash of elec- F such position, with such prerogative in world af-| The bill was held until Monday afternoon (five days), cio kia. But not @ squawk about the moist with ‘airs. i and tho appeal after appeal was made, it was impos | alcohol accen : aff the danger would seem to lie not | oie to pone it from the committee, After Monday, it Will be fine stuff for rye, corn and barley fields, mpairment of our national sovereignty, loss of grip Vent to the rules committee, but they're gonna be used for bread and breakfast our Monroe Doctrine and such, but rather in our “feel-| Meanwhile, Sunday night brought about 20 real our oats” and going in for imperialistic enterprises. |estate men, headed by EB. 8, Goodwin and J. M. Spark: | food from now on. Bend the corckscrews into button. Verily it would seem that the nations of the earth have |™4". who started efforts to kill the bill. They did sat Ss busine hooks and sell the corks to minstrel shows, Hic! r n r) + | not ask for a public hearing. It did not seem neces. BUNCHED THEM together at Paris, solemnly decided that business is busi-~| tary’ tor the machine was in perfect working order. | flarold’s mBther was siving Alsexty., Sue tela, the gs and the instrument thru which to maintain peace, and |cuie disctaimed interest in the bill Monday. After | utile fellow that whenever be passed: in front of any p pee, ted to Uncle Sam the job of signing the checks, which, holding the bill five day the commnltien of pig he one be must. sry "macuse met’ Barett made many NZ SS 4 1 = rt 4, ‘ is chairman was good enough to “repor' > | trips back a ‘orth and got tired of repeating the = if we understand business at all, is some cinch. 1 am sure all will understand just how the bill came | same phrase over and over, #o he finally said: “Ladies f iC Y FRUIT 4 jto its death. Let me add, 1 do not understand why | and gentlemen, please excuse me for the whole even- ay INGUGt the people of this state pagmit a machine composed | ing.” 4 | of five men to run the house of representatives. ee Goes Around in a Circle If ever a house-cleaning was needed, it t# there, LOGICAL Could the people of this state watch the legislature | 4 Richmond youngster had quite a list of toys he for @ month, as I did, a great many new faces would | wished for Christmas. His mother took him down. Theo. Price, the business expert of that most valuable |*?P@!t Dext session. There are two things in par- | town to wee the toys, so that she could know Just . , ticular, which will always remain with me, that I what sort of gun, wagon, etc, he desired. He noticed blication, Commerce and Finance, notes the satisfactory | witnessed there. the way she exhibited to him the different styles of ondition of most retail businesses, the resuscitation of the | One was a poor, weak specimen of man who robbed | the toys he had ordered, and her anxiety worried him. utomobile business, increase in building enterprises and | thowands of soldiers and ee ye ie rare cach: | Finally he could stand’ it no longer. “Mamma,” he oncludes that “there is a reasonable basis for the expecta-|*{te"_ ey bad protected his family, his home and | broke out, “if you want to #0 badly you can just buy ’ 4 -* pect | Property from harm. Until death, he will be known as | me all those things now and when I get home I'll lon that the year 1919 will be one of exceptional prosperity | the man who wobbled, and 1 can see his face flush ns | think’ up. something sles for. you to. eet; me tir the United States.” lit flushed the day of that vote, whenever he looks into | Christmas.” “Bac! 11,” 4G i i ith |® mirror. tong po mee is the increasing velocity with | The second i the “machine” of the house. And 7 “f “e 3 | whatever it i#, I care not what, that will break that Undoubtedly, prosperity depends in the highest degree| mactine, 1 am for, first, last and all the time n the rapid and general circulation of money. T. J. BOYD. igh wages and the collection and expenditure by the| ernment of big tax moneys must certainly increase the ocity” still further. Editor The Star: Closing events of the state legis. % # * lature created an opportunity for a constructive work “Awt—you had yer ” In other words, the taking of money from the compara-|of far-reaching character. ‘The days of corporation chury fa eae reerceeient tenae oer hewn few who have lots of it and handing it over, in the| lobbying are far in the past, in the sense of the old eee of, wages, to the millions who have comparatively | Northern Pacitic and other lobbies A Philadelphia uplifter claims she prevented 10,000 see IT MADE THE DIFFERENCE “I weigh two pounds more than you do all right,” mid a West Seattle boy, after he and his chum had | stepped off the scales, “O, no, you don't.” “Yes, I do, Now you watch the scales." And the scales proved him right. MAKE IT A FELONY TO TRADE VOTES hap ee Some of it spells prosperity. There are insidious influ tere with the prompt prosecution of the state's business |and does permit of a certain amount of lobbying and jockeying with the members of the legislature. | When more than 59 members mutually sign pledges |that under no etreumstances will they promise support for other men's measures in order to secure support for their own, they have taken a remarkably forward step. In thin I feel they should be encouraged. I go further, T feel with a publicity campaign and with the fnfluence on public opinion that The Star wields, it would probably be poxsible to have placed upon the statute books a Iaw making it a criminal offense entailing severe penalty for any member of the state legislature to attempt to bribe a fellow mem- ber by promise of support in return for a similar sup- port of their respective proposed legislation, making the proposer, and the one who accepts such a propo: nition, equally culpable before the law. With such a measure properly enforced, it would be possible for the various matters which come before the legislature to be considered solely upon merit. Al, J, DAVIDSON, . _taz. If t complain, The treasury of the new republic of ‘Hunland will have its burdens, but there will be enough cash on hand to sd federal buildings in cross-roads towns and dredge brooks. The assurance that Russia is going to the dogs is first definite promise of a reform in the affairs of are soon to have the world’s greatest merchant * re ia bright except for England eople are kicking about paying their income y had been drawing $30 per month, with some of the rest of the boys last year, they wouldn’t ces, however, which inter: divorce suits in three months. Which we maintain is pretty fast work, being at the rate of 110 a day, and working 20 hours a day, more than five an hour, or one every 12 minutes, eee ‘Telling how much coal the Y, M. C..A. burned, Dr. John A. Mott sald to an Bastern audience, “We kept the soldier warm.” We have met a lot of ‘em who | haven't cooled off yet, see While it is true a man offered $1,000 to hear Wil- son's New York speech, we believe there are several United States senators who would have paid that much to miss it, eee Postage stamps are going“Dack to 2 cents next sum. mer, We are already planning what to do with the money we save, see Frank Frazier, a discharged soldier, gave a stranger a $60 bill to pay a small freight charge. No, George, the man didn't return with the change, O, the bound. Jess optimiem of Youth! of its contents. So look for WRIGLEYS in the sealed package that keeps all its sood- That’s why